Posts Tagged: Bayh-Dole
Bayh-Dole Rocks While the Critics Play the Same False Note
A just-released study co-sponsored by the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) and AUTM provides new evidence of the significant contribution academic patent licensing makes to the U.S. …
The One Word that Will Help Restore the U.S. Patent System
Based on the age of many of us in the room, President Reagan was probably the first president many of us remember. And I mention this because …
Jamie Love Responds to Criticism of Knowledge Ecology International Letter
On May 12, Frederick Reinhart published an article titled “Knowledge Ecology International Letter Misleads on March-In Rights.” Reinhart is a past president of the Association of University Technology …
The Washington Post Misses the Mark on March-In Rights
The National Institute of Standards and Technology recently indicated in its "Return on Investment Initiative draft green paper" that it would issue regulations effectively ending attempts to …
If We Don’t Develop Best Practices Ourselves, the Government Will
I recently delivered a keynote address at a special session of the AUTM Annual Meeting, where the Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed) released its new University Technology …
IP Due Diligence in the Life Sciences: Key Considerations for 2019
The success of a life science product, and thereby the company, rests heavily upon a combination of patent protection, regulatory exclusivity and product life cycle management. A …
Happy Birthday, Senator Birch Bayh
Hopefully, you've been fortunate enough—at least once in your life—to work for someone you really admired. That happened to me as a Senate Judiciary Committee …
The Future is in Our Hands; No Room in the U.S. for Second Best
A reliable and predictable patent law is more necessary than ever, for technology is a much larger part of our industrial product than ever. The recent Supreme …
Universities: Fallen Angels or Stewards of Bayh-Dole?
University discoveries are recognized as critical national assets because Bayh-Dole gave academic institutions the ability to own and manage inventions made with federal funding. The law helped …
Is NIST Listening? Bayh-Dole is a Model for Federal Tech Transfer Improvement
It would be a tragic mistake to blame federal tech transfer underperformance on Bayh-Dole. Bayh-Dole needs no amending. Bayh-Dole demonstrates how secure patent rights are the lynchpin …
Want a greater ROI for taxpayers? Restore the patent system, protect Bayh-Dole and cut the red tape strangling federal labs
Three events boosted our economic turnaround in the 1980's: the passage of Bayh-Dole, which injected the incentives of patent ownership into the federal R&D system; the …
Increasing the ROI from the Federal Labs
The biggest complaint about federal labs is it's too hard to complete deals. Many federal labs must run pending agreements through byzantine departmental procedures. Companies wonder what's …
Unleashing American Innovation, Oil States and Eroom’s Law
NCATS is working with industry to de-risk promising therapies by helping to take them further down the development pipeline. But the key ingredient remains finding a private …
Commerce Secretary ready to push update to tech transfer laws to ensure greater commercialization
Secretary Ross gave an unequivocal endorsement of Bayh-Dole specifically, and more generally saying laws need to be updated to address business and technology realities of today, and …
Letter to President Trump on China IP Probe is Latest Sign of Conservative Support for Private IP Rights
A group of 16 leaders from politically conservative institutions sent a letter addressed to President Donald Trump lauding the Trump Administration’s decision last summer to initiate an …
